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    Dr. Kathleen Durant

    Dr. Kathleen Durant

    Speech Pathology and Audiology
    Assistant Professor
    Campus:
    Kent
    Office Location:
    A140 Center for Performing Arts
    Contact Information
    Email:
    kdurant@kent.edu
    Phone:
    330-672-0253

    Biography

    Dr. Durant is an assistant professor in the Speech Pathology and Audiology program in the School of Health Sciences, College of Education, Health and Human Services. She teaches graduate courses focusing on developmental and acquired cognitive and communication disorders and is a member of the Brain Health Research Institute at Kent State University. She is the director of Learning Outcomes, Cognitive Abilities, and Language (LOCAL) lab, where she investigates the influence of nonverbal cognition on encoding language information in children’s first and second languages.  She has shown that bilingual performance reflects both evaluation task type and distributed language-learning opportunities.

    Dr. Kathleen Durant's CV

    Education

    Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Memphis, 2017
    M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology, University of Memphis, 2013
    B.A. in Linguistics Ohio State University, 2009

    Research Methods

    Behavioral research of neurodevelopmental disorders Statistical modeling of bilingual language representation

    Awards/Achievements

    • College of Education, Health and Human Services Pre-Tenure SEED Grant, Kent State University Awarded
    Speech Pathology & Audiology

    Street Address

    A126 Center for Performing Arts, 1325 Theatre Drive, Kent, OH 44242


    Mailing Address

    800 E. Summit St.
    Kent, OH 44242

    Contact Us

    330-672-2672 coflanni@kent.edu
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